A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest.. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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But pain.. Seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endanger temples by night, embrace statues, and want by all means to unveil, uncover, and put into a bright light whatever is kept concealed for good reasons. N
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Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
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The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
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To find fulfillment.. Don't exist with life - embrace it.
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The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past.. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying.. On its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
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Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
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Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasur
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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When tempest tossed, embrace chaos
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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Don't fear change, embrace it.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy
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